Curtain-pole-lifting device.



C. V. ANDERSON.

CURTAIN POLE LIFTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18. 1913.

Patented Nov. 9,1915.

/ eflnderiaon CHARLES VICTOR ANDERSON, CF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

CURTAIN-POLE-LIFTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 19 15.

Application filed. September 18, 1913. Serial No. 790,502.

ports, whereby the operator, While standing in a position on the floormay readily'd islodge and remove a curtain pole, for 1nstance, from itssupport.

The use of the improved device obviates the necessity for employingstep-ladders when hanging or removing curtain poles, thus saving thehousekeeper the time formerly employed in running up and down stepladders, as well as obviating the danger attendant their use.

A full understanding of the nature and objects of the invention will beattained from the ensuing detailed description of a constructionembodying the same in a preferred form, when taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings, and the novel features of the invention willbe particularly pointed out and specified in the appended claim. 7

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a curtain pole liftingdevice embodying the present improvements. Fig. 2 is an end elevationthereof, with the lifting device shown disconnected from its handle.Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a modified form of lifting device adaptedfor engagement with a picture wire, whereby a suspended picture may beremoved from a wall. Fig. 4: is an end elevation of the deviceillustrated in Fig. 3 and also illustrating in end elevation a preferredconstruction for do tachably mounting both forms of the lifting deviceon a handle.

Like characters of reference in the several figures indicate the sameparts.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the liftingdevice or main supporting member 1 is conveniently embodied in anelongated bar 2 having curtain pole engaging and lifting clips 3 and aprojecting upwardly from the respective ends of the bar. Each liftingclip consists, preferably, of a plate having a flat base portion securedto the bar 2, the platebeing split longitudinally above the upper edgeof the bar 2 to provide upreaching arms 4; and 5, bent outwardly inopposite directions from the free upper ends 6, 7, of the upreachingarms 1, 5 are bent slightly outwardly to prevent them from catching ormarring the pole while being slipped thereunder; The bar 2 is adapted tobe attached to the upper end of a handle, a portion of which isillustrated at 1 1, and by manipulation ofthe handle, the clips at theends of the bar 2 may be mutually slid freely into supporting engagementwith a curtain pole. The handle 141 will be made long enough to permitthe operator to reach the pole from a position on the floor and slip theclips under the pole and lift it from its brackets or other wallsupports, without having to mount a step ladder or stand on a chair.

In Figs. 3 and 4:, the lifting device is slightly modified for use inremoving pictures from the wall. Instead of the elongated bar 2, abifurcated member 19 is employed, having its arms 17 and 18 split andbent apart to provide upreaching oppositely extending fingers 20 and 21.In operation, the fingers 20 and 21 are slipped under a picture wire, bymanipulation of the handle 14:, and the picture removed by lifting thewire, supported by the arms 17 and 18, from its wall hook (not shown).Bifurcated member 19 is provided with a circular extension 20 similar toextension 8, whereby it may be detachably mounted on the handle 14 inthe manner hereinafter described.

Both forms of the lifting device are preferably so constructed that theymay be detachably mounted on the end of handle 14; in different angularpositions in the manner shown and described in my prior Patent No.1,009,883, granted to me November 28, 1911. For this purpose, thearticle support is provided with a depending substantially circularextension 8 having a central tubular bearing 9 projecting from one facethereof and extending clear through the extension to the opposite facethereof. Arranged around the bearing 9 is a series of holes 10. Securedto the handle 1% is an upper extension 13, preferably circular and ofthe same diameter as the extension 8. Projecting from extension 13 is acentral lug 11 and a series of lugs 12, each lug the same distance fromthe cen .60 the plane of the bar and forming a seat with a free openend. As'shown in Fig. 2,

tral lug 11, as the holes 10 in extension 8 are from the tubular bearingmember 9, whereby the lugs 01": extension 13 may be fitted into theholes of extension 8. A hook 15 is pivotally mounted at 16 on the handle14: below the extension 13.

By an inspection. of Fig. 4 it will be apparent that the central lug llof extension 13 may be inserted in tubular bearing member 9 of extension8, and the lugs 12 in any of the holes 10, in accordance with thedesired angular adjustment of the article support relatively to handle14. By slipping hook 15 over bearing 9, the two extensions are rigidlysecured together. Having now described my invention that which I claimto be new and desire to procure by Letters Patent is A device forlifting and removing curtain poles and the like from their Wallsupports,

comprising, in combination, a handle, an elongated bar mounted on oneend of the handle, a lifting clip projecting upwardly from said bar ateach end thereof, each lifting clip consisting of a plate having a flatbase portion secured. to the bar, said plate being split longitudinallyof the plate above the upper edge of the bar, to provide upreaching armsbent outwardly in opposite directions from. the plane of the bar to forma seat with a free open end, whereby the clips at the ends of the barmay be mutually slid into supporting engagement with :1 ourtain pole bymanipulation of the handle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES VICTOR ANDERSON. Vitnesses:

POWELL CROSSLEY, MILTON EYRE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

